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Unit 10- Personality Flashcards

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Personality trait

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Unable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations

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Personality

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An individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits

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Factor analysis

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Correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables

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Who created factor analysis and got 171 traits to 16

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Raymond Cattell

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How many basic dimensions are in favor analysis

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16

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Who created the five factor model

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Robert McRae and Paul costa

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: worried insecure self pitying

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Neuroticism

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Neuroticism

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Negative emotions

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: sociable fun loving affectionate

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Extroversion

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Extraversion

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Positive emotion

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: imaginative preference for variety independent

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Openness to experience

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: softhearted trusting helpful

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Agreeableness

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: well organized careful self disciplines

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Conscientious

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What are liberals most likely to score high in?

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Openness to experience

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Structure of personality is composed of

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Id ego superego

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Primitive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle

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Id

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Decision making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle

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Ego

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Reality principle

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Seeks to delay gratification of the ids urges until appropriate outlets and situations can be found

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Moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong

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Superego

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Consists of whatever one is aware of at a particular moment

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Conscious

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Contains material just beneath the surface of awareness that can easily be retrieved

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Preconscious

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Contains thoughts memories and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence of behavior

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Unconscious

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What urges control sigmund freuds psychoanalytic theory

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Sexual urges and aggression

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Unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions like anxiety and guilt

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Defense mechanisms

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Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior

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Rationalization

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Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious

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Repression

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Attributing ones own thoughts feelings or motives to another

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Projection

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Diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a sub target

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Displacement

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Reversion to immature patterns of behavior

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Regression

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Bolstering self esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group

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Identification

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Psychosexual stages

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Developmental periods with a characteristic sexual focus that leave their mark on adult personality

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Fixation

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Failure to move forward from one stage to another as expected

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Oedipal complex

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Children manifest erotically tinged desires for their opposite sex parent accompanied with hostility toward their same sex parent

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What is carl jungs version of the unconscious

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Personal unconscious

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What is the deeper layer of the personal unconscious

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Collective unconscious

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Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning

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Archetypes

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What does Alfred Adler focus his psychoanalytical theory on

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Superiority

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Compensation

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Involves efforts to overcome imagines of real inferiorities by developing ones ability

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Exaggerated feelinga of weakness

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Inferiority complex

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Theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior

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Behaviorism

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Skinners view of a persons personality

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Collection of response tendencies that are ties to various stimulus situations

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Social learning theory creator

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Albert bandura

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Reciprocal determinism

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Environment determines behavior but behavior determines environment

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Observational learning

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Occurs when an organisms responding is influenced by the observation of others

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Ones belief abouf ones ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes

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Self efficiency

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Humanism

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Theory that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth

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Phenomenological approach

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Assumes that one has to appreciate individual’s personal experiences to rules understand their behavior

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Founder of human potential movement

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Carl Rogers

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Person centered theory

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Emphasis on persons subjective point of view

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Collection of beliefs about ones own nature

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Self concept

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Degree of disparity between ones self concept and ones actual experience

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In congruence

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Hierarchy of needs

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Systematic arrangement of needs according to priority in which basic needs must be met before less basic

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Who created the theory of self actualization

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Carl Maslow

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Need for self actualization

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Need to fulfill ones potential

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Hans Eysenck believes

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Peoples personalitys come from their genes

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Eysenck believes that personality traits come from what things?

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Extra version, neuroticism, and psychoticism

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University of Minnesota study

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Test on fraternal twins reared apart

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Terror management theory

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Culture provides ways to the world that solve the existential crisis engendered by the awareness of death

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Widely used self report inventory

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Mmpi

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How many personality traits are measured in the mmpi

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10

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Who created the 16pf

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Cattell

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What test measures the big 5

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NEO

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Projective tests

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Ask participants to respond to vague ambiguous stimuli in ways they may reveal the subjects needs feelings and personality traits

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Ink blots

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Rorschach

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TAT

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Pictures with stories

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